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- <p><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Window
- overview</span></b></p>
- <p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Sprite
- Explorer has a very comfortable interface. There is nothing hard in it – the
- windows can be divided into the main menu, toolbar, and frames viewer and
- information panels. Here we'll describe the icons, which can be found on toolbar
- and tell you what the information panels do.</span></p>
- <p><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><br>
- <img border="0" src="img_toolbar.GIF" width="461" height="24"></font></p>
- <p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Above, there
- is an image of Sprite Explorer's toolbar. Now I'll try to describe each icon of
- the toolbar.<br>
- Icons, including drop-down menu are numbered from 1 to 15 as their position from
- left to right.</span></p>
- <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width: 100.0%; border-collapse: collapse; border: medium none; background: white">
- <tr>
- <td width="5%" style="width: 5.0%; border: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm; background: #CACAFF">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;
- color:white"> Number</span></td>
- <td width="20%" style="width: 20.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm; background: #CACAFF">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;
- color:white"> Caption</span></td>
- <td width="75%" style="width: 75.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm; background: #CACAFF">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: white"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:white">Description</span></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="5%" style="width: 5.0%; border-left: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> 1</span></td>
- <td width="20%" style="width: 20.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Create new HL
- sprite file</span></td>
- <td width="75%" style="width: 75.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Launches the
- sprite creation wizard, which will help you to create a new sprite. Click
- <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" href="pg_new.htm">here</a> to find more about this wizard.</span></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="5%" style="width: 5.0%; border-left: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> 2</span></td>
- <td width="20%" style="width: 20.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Open HL
- sprite file</span></td>
- <td width="75%" style="width: 75.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Loads a
- Half-Life sprite from a folder into Sprite Explorer.</span></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="5%" style="width: 5.0%; border-left: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> 3</span></td>
- <td width="20%" style="width: 20.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Previous file
- in folder</span></td>
- <td width="75%" style="width: 75.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Loads a
- sprite, which is previous in the folder (or .pak, if sprite is loaded from
- it)</span></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="5%" style="width: 5.0%; border-left: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> 4</span></td>
- <td width="20%" style="width: 20.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Next file in
- folder</span></td>
- <td width="75%" style="width: 75.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Reads a
- sprite which is next in the folder to active sprite (or in .pak, if sprite
- is loaded from it)</span></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="5%" style="width: 5.0%; border-left: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> 5</span></td>
- <td width="20%" style="width: 20.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Drop-down
- menu</span></td>
- <td width="75%" style="width: 75.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Shows list
- of sprites, found in folder of active sprite, or from the whole .pak file,
- to make navigation in folders easier.</span></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="5%" style="width: 5.0%; border-left: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> 6</span></td>
- <td width="20%" style="width: 20.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Copy frame to
- clipboard</span></td>
- <td width="75%" style="width: 75.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Copies
- selected frame to the clipboard, so you can paste it wherever you want (in
- mspaint or winword for example)</span></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="5%" style="width: 5.0%; border-left: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> 7</span></td>
- <td width="20%" style="width: 20.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Save single
- frame to .GIF</span></td>
- <td width="75%" style="width: 75.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Saves select
- frame to .GIF. If there are multiple frames select, it will save first
- selected frame.</span></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="5%" style="width: 5.0%; border-left: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> 8</span></td>
- <td width="20%" style="width: 20.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Save single
- frame to .tga</span></td>
- <td width="75%" style="width: 75.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> The same as
- before but saves the frame to targa graphics format.</span></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="5%" style="width: 5.0%; border-left: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> 9</span></td>
- <td width="20%" style="width: 20.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Save selected
- frames to .gif</span></td>
- <td width="75%" style="width: 75.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Saves
- selected frames into a .gif file. You can select multiple frames also by
- clicking on them and holding Ctrl.</span></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="5%" style="width: 5.0%; border-left: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> 10</span></td>
- <td width="20%" style="width: 20.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Save selected
- to .GIF’s </span></td>
- <td width="75%" style="width: 75.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> The same as
- before but saves frames into seperate .GIF files.</span></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="5%" style="width: 5.0%; border-left: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> 11</span></td>
- <td width="20%" style="width: 20.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Decompile
- sprite (.qc)</span></td>
- <td width="75%" style="width: 75.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Exports the
- whole sprite to a collection of .GIF's and a .qc file, so it can be compiled
- by Sprite Explorer or SprGen utility.</span></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="5%" style="width: 5.0%; border-left: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> 12</span></td>
- <td width="20%" style="width: 20.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Save sequence
- to .gif</span></td>
- <td width="75%" style="width: 75.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Exports
- whole sprite to .gif animation file.</span></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="5%" style="width: 5.0%; border-left: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> 13</span></td>
- <td width="20%" style="width: 20.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Read html
- manual</span></td>
- <td width="75%" style="width: 75.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Launches
- your browser with Sprite Explorer's help system which you are reading now :)</span></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="5%" style="width: 5.0%; border-left: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> 14</span></td>
- <td width="20%" style="width: 20.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">About Sprite
- Explorer</span></td>
- <td width="75%" style="width: 75.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Displays
- dialog box with information about program authors. You can send us email, by
- clicking on a name.</span></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="5%" style="width: 5.0%; border-left: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> 15</span></td>
- <td width="20%" style="width: 20.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Quit
- application</span></td>
- <td width="75%" style="width: 75.0%; border-left: medium none; border-right: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1.0pt inset #CACAFF; padding: 0cm">
- <p class="MsoNormal">
- <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Quits Sprite
- Explorer.</span></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Information
- panels are situated at the right and the bottom. The one at right shows you the
- sprite's animated preview and information about the sprite, such as size, kind
- and transparency mode (format). The panel at the bottom shows you the hint of a
- GUI element on the window: for example when you'll move the cursor to a button
- on the toolbar, you'll see a hint there. Also Sprite Explorer’s state label is
- situated here (it has [PAK] or [FAT] text on it). It shows whether active sprite
- was loaded from a folder or directly from .pak. When you are loading a sprite on
- this panel, you can see the progress bar, which shows the progress of loading
- procedure.</span></p>
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